Quotessence
Home / Topics / Objects Quotes

Objects Quotes

Browse 4503 quotes about Objects.

Related topics

IfsMenPeopleWorldMindThinkingArtWayHumansMayShouldKnowsFirstsIdeasGivingDoeWantFormMeanDesirePersonsSubjectsUseLooksMadeEyeWholeWellsHas BeensRealFeelsLightFactsNeedsStatesBeautifulBodySpaceSelfSoulStillsImportantChildrenEndsRealityBookLittlesKindReasonCertainGovernmentPaintingBelieveAttentionMatterLongDifferentTwoHandsScienceValuesFeelingsNaturalOrderArtistMightSaidSeemsTurnsViewsDesignHeartInterestMaterialsMomentsPleasureProcessTryingExistenceLove IsPhotographLawPurposeYearsCharacterWarActionSpiritInanimate ObjectsLanguageQualityUniverseIndividualMovingWritingStoriesArt IsEarthLyingCausesmore

Objects Quotes

“Here we observe the basic obsessive fantasy of Žižek's position: do nothing, sit still, prefer not to, like Melville's Bartleby, and silently dream of a ruthless violence, a consolidation of state power into one man's hands, an act of brutal physical force of which you are the object or the subject or both at once.”

MenStillsStatesDreamHandsForceFantasyViolenceSubjectsPositionObjectsOne ManBrutalRuthlessObsessivePhysical ForceConsolidationMelville
Author:Simon Critchley
Create image

“While a forgery illegally exploits the elitist taste for rarity, a kitsch object insists on its anti elitist availability. The deceptive character of kitsch does not lie in whatever it may have in common with actual forgery but in its claim to supply its consumers with essentially the same kinds and qualities of beauty as those embodied in unique or rare and inaccessible originals.”

KindMayDoeCharacterLyingCommonQualityObjectsTasteUniqueClaimsOriginalsConsumersExploitsDeceptiveAvailabilityElitistKitschInaccessibleRarityForgery
Author:Matei Calinescu
Create image

“To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1) things that need to be fixed, and (2) things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”

NeedsGivingArtTwoMatterPlayUniverseImaginationModernMinutesObjectsSkillsFixedCategoriesEngineersBasketsModern ArtPicnicsCraftsmanshipPicnic Baskets
Author:Tom Stoppard
Create image

“Just look at the history of cinema. The most reproduced male character is probably the hero and the most reproduced female character is probably the sex object. I think those stereotypes have been reproduced over and over again. It also changes our expectations when it comes to a situation like this in real life.”

ThinkingLooksHas BeensRealCharacterSexSituationObjectsHeroExpectationsFemaleMalesReal LifeCinemaStereotypeFemale Characters
Author:Ruben Ostlund
Create image

“For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature has vanished, and mind has resulted as the idea arrived at being-for-itself, the object of which, as well as the subject, is the concept. This identity is absolute negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect external objectivity, this its alienation has been superseded, and in this alienation the concept has become identical with itself. But it is this identity therefore, only in being a return out of nature.”

MindWellsHas BeensIdeasReasonPerfectSubjectsIdentityObjectsReturnConceptsAbsolutesNegativityAlienationPremisesIdenticalObjectivityPrius
Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Create image

“The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow as far as its necessities might require.”

GovernmentMightObjectsAuthorityCreatingFundTaxation
Book:The Federalist Papers (Including Declaration of Independence & United States Constitution): Written by the Founding Fathers in Favor of the Constitution – Arguments that Created the Modern America
Create image

“If all our common-sense notions about the universe were correct, then science would have solved the secrets of the universe thousands of years ago. The purpose of science is to peel back the layer of the appearance of the objects to reveal their underlying nature. In fact, if appearance and essence were the same thing, there would be no need for science.”

IfsNeedsYearsFactsWould BePurposeUniverseCommonSecretObjectsYears AgoEssenceNotionAppearanceCommon SenseLayers
Author:Michio Kaku
Create image

“Don't forget that costumes, like dreams, are symbolic communication. Dreams teach us that a language for everything exists - for every object, every color worn, every clothing detail. Hence, costumes provide an aesthetic objectification that helps to tell the character's story.”

CharacterHelpingStoriesDreamLanguageForgetTeachObjectsColorCommunicationDetailsClothingsAestheticWornCostumesSymbolicObjectification
Book:Federico Fellini: Interviews
Create image